AddressWGA is an Australian and New Zealand company like no other – we are owned by the employees, loved by our long-term clients and have deep roots in our communities. With a team of over 630 people, WGA provides a rich, diverse, and empowered workplace, and offers you a chance to work alongside some of the best in the business.
WGA offers an outstanding working environment that fosters and supports mutual learning, respect, dignity, cultural openness, and an appreciation of differing perspectives and backgrounds. We strive to offer inspiring career paths and a selection of fantastic employee benefits. If you enjoy a great office environment, excellent flexibility and the long-term benefits that only a private organisation can offer, then WGA might be for you!
We deliver tailored design engineering solutions across the Buildings, Transport, Water Infrastructure, Urban Development, Ports and Marine, Energy, Defence and Resources sectors. We empower our engineers to think outside the square and dare to be different.
About our approach:
We focus upon the core philosophy of delivering excellent engineering solutions for our valued Clients which allows us to create exceptional, long-term opportunities for our talented personnel. Our unique style of project delivery ensures that our people don't have to choose between maintaining hands on Engineering and corporate career options, they can have both!
About our role:
WGA undertake pavement designs across a broad range of projects, including for local and state governments, defence, private developers and infrastructure owners
With a large workload in new flexible pavement design and pavement rehabilitation designs on roads and highways, we also undertake designs for industrial pavements, ports and marine facilities and other heavy duty applications as well as for rigid pavements and landscaping projects.
About you:
- Highly proficient in flexible pavement design and rehabilitation, particularly to state authority requirements
- Ideally experienced in rigid pavement, block pavement and stabilised pavement designs
- Ideally experienced at assessing condition data on existing roads, including deflectograph data
- Proficient at using CIRCLY 7.0, HIPAVE, FAARFIELD, BPA and AfPA Pavement design methods and software
- Able to produce clear and succinct design reports and technical specifications.
- Experienced in construction verification and construction support within the pavements space
- Demonstrated ability to work closely and collaboratively with clients and contractors to identify constructable and best for use pavement designs that are site specific and meets the needs of the client and end user
- Sound project management and hands-on experience, encompassing administrative, commercial and technical aspects.
- Experience in the co-ordination, design and delivery of pavement projects within multi-disciplinary engineering projects
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Work effectively in a team environment
- Experience across highways, industrial, maritime and/or airfields sectors would be highly regarded
At WGA we believe a diverse workplace fosters unique and progressive ideas and drives our culture of learning and sharing knowledge. We encourage all to apply because whatever your background you can progress your career and enjoy the benefits that only a privately owned organisation can offer.
